Show notes
This episode we explore the history of Adium, the venerable open-source messaging app for OS X. We trace the evolution of the duck, get Ed's obscure feature requests implemented, and eventually move all our chat needs to iOS.
followup
- theories about the new iTunes icon
- 32-bit icon editors
- Eyeballs.js
Adium
- instant messaging application for OS X
- is it [eɪdiəm] or [ædiəm]?
- AOL Instant Messenger
- extremely lightweight, ~1MB download [WayBack Machine]
- tab and window organization
- Fitt's law
- organize tabs into windows by group
